"Toward Composing a Model of Reading"

I believe that we have hall used the five functions of writing which Tierney and Pearson talk about.  Those five functions of writing are planning, drafting, aligning, revising, and monitoring.  I want to say that I used all of these functions in some way or the other but I am not very sure…so let’s see.

In the Wikipedia process, I know I used planning but not as in depth as Tierney and Pearson describe it as.  I simply heard about my subject and ran with the idea. I don’t believe I did any self-questioning about the topic but I did have to evaluate the Knowledge I had on the subject.  I really do feel like I accomplished the aligning phase, I feel like my page flows with the information presented.  My first submission of my page to the Wikipedia Guardians was my drafting page, I took their feedback , revised the page for citation errors and other things that needed to be worked on in my page.  I honestly felt like the revising stage was the most frustrating.  I would feel like my article was 100% ready to go, then I’d submit it for review and have to go back and take care of more things the Wikipedia elders didn’t approve.  After all this I feel like a was constantly monitoring my page.  I think these five functions of writing can go in sequence, but I also feel like the five functions can repeat and overlap themselves as well.

Post #2

I feel that Williams wants us to writing errors as "social constructs" because errors in writing are inevitable.  We need to accept that no piece of writing is going to be perfect.  There will always be someone sifting through writing and snuffing out the grammatical errors in it.  Within the realm of writing, I feel like he wants us to understand that these errors are acceptable.  After all, Williams admits that his writing actually has some errors within its lines.  I think that people view Wikipedia as error prone because, not everyone who uses posts and or edits that websites pages are not English scholars.  If we think about it, there are thousands upon thousands of people who can post/edit about a certain scientific fact, but when you get into the Encyclopedia, its information was put together by a few elite…but they are scholars, keep that in mind.  And see with Wikipedia, error and fault are allowed to happen.  With the Encyclopedia, I’m sure there are mistakes, but these are much more condemning.  I believe that Wikipedia goes under so much scrutiny because of how many uncredentialed users post on its site, even though the information is spot on correct.  Let’s say I knew how to teach or instruct our ENG 308j class, everyone would still feel much better if Matt taught it because he is more qualified.  I think Williams can help us answer this question.  Thousands of people trudge through Wikipedia and are looking for mistakes, I believe Williams states that “if we go looking for mistakes, we will find mistakes.”  No one wants to call into question the reliability of the Encyclopedia writers/creators.

Introduction

This is a little about me, my previous experience’s with other English courses and how I feel about ENG308J.

My name is Ryan Miranda and I am from Cleveland, Ohio. I am a junior here at OU and I’m studying Soc/Crim and Psy. I play rugby here and I enjoy fighting video games a lot.

I did not take ENG 151 here. The most rewarding thing about my previous English courses was that I learned the basics of writing and citing.  The thing I was liked least was that these classes met once a week for three and a half hours.  These courses lacked a student to student and teacher to student relationship.  We didn’t partake in any group activities so it felt like I was constantly meeting with strangers. 

I really like how this class is set up.  I feel like we’ll get to know each other through blogs and peer reviews. I feel like the assignments will encourage interest, attendance, and participation.  I hope 308J helps me to understand blogging or social tech. writing.  I don’t have a facebook so I am kind of out of the fray with this type of writing.  I hope I am able to work these websites and posting thing correctly.